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              May 21, 2026 17:26
            
              
                Coordinating coding agents across a multi-issue sprint: what we saw — retro from a real run
              
          
        
      
        

      
      
    Coordinating coding agents across a multi-issue sprint: what we saw

A short retrospective from a sprint where one coordinator agent supervised individual coding agents working on consecutive, dependency-linked issues. Generalized from a real run; concrete examples linked at the bottom.
Setup

Two LLM agent layers running against the same repo:

Coordinator agent — owns sprint-level state. Reviews plans, reviews completion reports, files follow-up issues, edits the canonical sprint doc.
Coding agents — one per issue. Read the issue body, sprint plan, ADRs, governing instructions (e.g. a repo-level CLAUDE.md), and prior PR diffs. Propose a plan with acceptance criteria. Implement in an isolated branch/worktree. Produce a completion report aligned with the AC set.